Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 13:5

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5. The Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen —Either this number must include chariots of every kind—or the word "chariots" must mean the men fighting in them ( 2 Samuel 10:18 ; 1 Kings 20:21 ; 1 Chronicles 19:18 ); or, as some eminent critics maintain, Sheloshim ("thirty"), has crept into the text, instead of Shelosh ("three"). The gathering of the chariots and horsemen must be understood to be on the Philistine plain, before they ascended the western passes and pitched in the heart of the Benjamite hills, in "Michmash," (now Mukmas), a "steep precipitous valley" [ROBINSON], eastward from Beth-aven (Beth-el). 1 Chronicles 19:18- : . THE ISRAELITES' DISTRESS. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-6" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-1sa-13-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/1sa-13-5

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological